Sentences with phrase «ply with»

«I was going to get a bunch of friends and ply them with food and alcohol and shoot the party,» Morrison says.

Doctors offices ply us with 10 - year - old magazines that we wouldn't even think to pick up in most situations.

The Pixel XL also hangs onto the 3.5 mm headphone socket, meaning it's happy to ply with your old headphones.

Ply them with food and alcohol — Some of you have small business promotion accounts that can be used to entertain clients and potential clients.

LARRY WALKER, Installation view with «Secret # V (with Spirit Voices and W's), Wall Series (extension),» 2009 (acrylic, latex, stucco mix on birch ply with rope, chain, Georgia granite).

But I've got to say that if, like in one scenario presented, I'm sitting at a coffee shop reading to prep for the class I teach, and some random man comes infringing on my time and space to then ply me with questions about my work and research, making me prove to them that it matters, my first reaction isn't likely to be attraction or arousal.

• At Phulay Bay Ritz - Carlton Reserve in Thailand, every suite's private butlers is part personal assistant, part ladies» maid or valet • At Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, staffers know your name and hometown, and ply you with fresh - baked cookies

Constructed in ply with poplar veneer.

To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»

Credit card companies will ply you with generous offers and may even target you with special offers that can amount to twice the value of their publicly advertised offers.

«I'll ply you with roses, I'll ogle your ankles, I'll ravish you if you let me.

His friend Jack (Jeff Bridges), an even more successful screenwriter who has been inspired by her, recommends her, but to clinch the deal Steven has to messenger over some of his scripts, ply her with gifts, book her into the Four Seasons, and buy her groceries.

If most movies lie to us or ply us with wish - fulfillment fantasies (we are handsome, good and victorious), the movies of German writer - director Michael Haneke do the opposite: they lay bare, in the starkest way, our greatest fears: We are not safe («Funny Games»), we are not good («The White Ribbon»), we have no privacy («Caché»).

Once Greg and Rachel have gotten over the awkwardness of the situation, and his compulsion to ply her with his arch humor, the pair click and become true friends, Rachel helping unearth Greg's inner adult, Greg helping her negotiate an unimaginably rough period in her life.

Crusader Kings II: Jade Dragon brings in China and ask you to keep the Emperor happy, with a tributary system so you can ply him with gold or concubines.

They may ply you with liquor, tell you how great of a catch you are and bash the ex-spouse for breaking your heart.

So although she had a nice time and wasn't injured or anything, all I really did was potentially ruin her designer boots and lovely dress, malnourish her, ply her with sugar and then not police her Google search of «monkey pictures» (which, let's face it, could have ended in tears).

While you wait, the servers ply you with free cookies and orange slices, whetting your appetite for the restaurant's specialty: fluffy pancakes, preferably the lemon ricotta, paired with an egg cream.

Real estate, meanwhile, continued to ply her with donations.

«With a state mandate - this regardless of your staffing needs or your day - to - day workplace needs - we're gonna say «this is the leave standard that you have to ply with» and I think this is going to be disruptive for smaller employers.

Ms Dorries said in a statement, «I wish to apologise to the House fully and unreservedly for what was a genuinely inadvertent breach of the rules which I have at all times sought to comply ply with.»

Scotties tissues 3 - ply or 3 - ply with aloe are the best for this time of year, to keep you layered in comfort.

when she was slow to ply him with a towel.

Not long ago, a special agent — working for a secretive agency that's in the news a lot these days — asked me to take a Chinese man out to dinner, ply him with wine, and help to «flip» him.

Pub restaurants tend to have less expensive menus than most other restaurants, so once you've savored ideas over lunch you can offer to buy your client a drink at the bar — but plying them with drink shouldn't be part of your sales pitch...

He met with clothing manufacturers and makers of other consumer goods, plied them with bath gel, and barraged them with questions about the channel.

Rare is the employee who has not been ushered into a conference room, plied with snacks and coffee, and told to bounce ideas around with colleagues.

Do - it - yourselfers hate the distinctive fastener for its tendency to «cam - out,» or slip, when plied with a screwdriver.

During his time in his final placement before the hotel, he was sexually assaulted twice, once by a contractor who plied him with narcotics.

We plied him with a glass, or maybe two, of wine.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is, I sure hope he (or she or it) does not go around raising up killers, plying them with semiautomatic weapons, goading them to target practice, encouraging them to plot mass killings and cheering them on as they shoot multiple bullets into screaming 6 - and 7 - year - old children.

Some time ago I attended a dinner and was seated beside a guest who plied me with questions concerning alcoholism.

Kris at The Raw Chocolate Co. has slowly become my best friend by plying me with copious amounts of raw chocolate.

Donia and Jennifer, you must, by now, know that I intend to hold you both personally responsible for encouraging him — including plying you with the surplus fruits of his labors next year... xoxo Nicole

But he plies me with alcohol!

A sled dog can not be trained like a house dog, plied with food or cowed by physical punishment.

This explains everything one need know about the basic motivations of the city: stuff comes in, the people who sell it come with it and locals make money plying them with liquor and strippers and by booting their cars when they park badly.

Deb: Thanks for making that important point — that we need a countervailing force against those helpful formula manufacturers plying you with free samples before you leave the hospital!

he still lives at home (38 y / o and I'm 33)... he has far too many obligations to do anything thoughtful for me (besides house dates, the occasional fast food, dates at a chain restaurant or plying me with alcoholic beverages that I demanded to get me through those many days and nights of staying over at his full house).

I've played around quite a bit with plying recycled strands together, spinning recycled yarn with bits of wool roving, plying them with thread, dyeing yarn before spinning it with other yarn, or dyeing it all together after spinning.

So, Nestle also has a long history of hosting press junkets in which journalists are invited on swanky trips and plied with Nestle propaganda.

While I am certain that this arrangement was made during one of the multiple evening you plied me with booze, it will be my pleasure to honor it.

It goes without saying that the real estate lobby, insurance companies, dying political machines, and hedge funders won't be plying me with gobs of cash anytime soon.

A Pennsylvania woman convinced a teenage boy to have sex with her several times a day and plied him with prescription pills — then advertised him as a prostitute on...

Constand says Cosby, whom she considered a mentor, plied her with pills and wine, before sexually assaulting her on his couch in 2004 after seeking his advice on moving to Canada and switching careers.

Ben Fellows, 40, from Birmingham, alleged that the leading politician had plied him with alcohol and carried out the sexual assault in the office of a lobbyist while he was working undercover for ITV's Cook Report in 1994.

Marginals are plied with good things: no hospitals ever close in marginals, says the Electoral Reform Society.

In the past five years, labs around the country have begun artificially inducing this state by cooling animals to ultralow temperatures, pumping them full of fake blood, and plying them with toxic gases in order to reversibly arrest life's basic processes.

With his bearish frame and thick black beard, Ali Cherchi would be an imposing figure — if he weren't propped up in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube in his nose and an intravenous line plying him with antibiotics.

Until the entrenched thinking that whole unprocessed fats such as butter and eggs are somehow unhealthy changes, however, American children will continue to get fatter and fatter as they are plied with whole grains and fruit for breakfast — the most important meal of the day and a real trigger for overweight unless done right.